Sunday August 17th 2025

The weather pattern this weekend was back to oppressive. The national weather service issued a heat advisory on Saturday. Mostly it was high 90s temperatures with lots of humidity followed by the usual afternoon and evening thunderstorms. The difference was the storms lasted a little longer than normal. Transitioning from AC to outside humidity and getting stuck in the rain are the only real discomfort associated with the weather pattern, but I stayed indoors most of the time. The late afternoon rain discouraged by lose plan of going to Sea World.

Between chores around my base camp and errands I watched a lot of YouTube this weekend. There are a few things like live streams from Disney World I watch regularly on YouTube. This weekend I got into binge watching many other things. Many of my viewing choices were base on YouTube suggestions. Since the selections come from Googles surveillance of my search history and other interactions, some of YouTube suggestions were right on the mark. The videos weren’t necessarily very good. Particularly when I have more experience in the subject area than the author of the video like about life in an RV.

Some of the videos are created by people new to camping or living in an RV. They want to pay it forward by providing information to other people new to RVs. Speaking with confidence and authority they describe things as absolutes or revolutionary, but somehow get it just a little wrong. For example, a water pressure regulator is very important, but you install it at the hose bib not at the RV just before the water entry into the RV. One of the things you need to protect from high pressure is the hose. Another video tried to emphasis the value of the commercial plastic leveling blocks designed to go under trailer tires like Lego blocks. For some reason the presenter was insistent that wood blocks couldn’t be used. I’ve never owned a set of plastic leveling blocks and have leveled many different RVs fine. I will not even begin to describe the convoluted process one guy videoed for winterizing his trailer. Why did he need ten gallon of antifreeze? I used to do it successfully with a gallon.

After watching more how to videos on topics I was familiar with, I’d say most of them are accurate but make a big deal about little things. I wonder how much misleading information I’ve got watching videos on topics I was trying to learn.